Word: dorland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Webster makes two painful tries: "(a) A form of consciousness characterized by desire of escape or avoidance, any varying from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture. (b) An affliction or feeling proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or bodily injury." Dorland's American Illustrated Medical Dictionary gives up without even a moan: "Distress or suffering...
...October 1946 . . . But this island had been closed behind a kind of Iron Curtain by the Japanese ever since the Manchuria incident in 1931, so there were very few people with even a fair reading knowledge of English . . . By good luck we got an excellent American professor, Mr. W. Dorland, who came to Formosa from Peking. We opened a night English school and it was an immediate success, enrolling from 300 to 400 students per month. Our magazine sales began increasing rapidly...